drop behind
fall
go backwards
disimprove
take a turn for the worse
run
make matters worse
freefall
crash
require improvement
misalter
come a gutser
worsen
fail at life
disimprovement
blow
lose ground
kick someone when they are down
exacerbate
pejorate
deterioratingly
be riding for a fall
go off the boil
suffer
deteriorate
bite the big one
backfire
lag behind
atelophobia
come to grief
fritz
decline
worsening
reap the whirlwind
go down in flames
go wrong
do more harm than good
snapper
have one foot on a banana peel
go south
harm
stave
misreform
damage
take on water
deteriorationist
make heavy weather of
skunk
impair
circle the drain
impairment
pessimism
turn
mess up
screw the pooch
act up
deformation
fight a losing battle
distortion
misfall
decay
lose out
downtrend
cack up
loserish
fall flat on one's face
fizzle out
blunder
rot in hell
worsener
suck a big one
tatter
go to smash
scantle
ameliorate
confound
loserhood
misadapt
sap
below average
starve
underwhelm
backward
die on the vine
flaw
pessimization
fall away
flawed
doggishness
out of the frying pan, into the fire
scant
drop the ball
bewill
go to pieces
misengender
worsening
loserish
below average
flawed
deterioratingly
backward
freefall
disimprovement
atelophobia
worsening
harm
misreform
damage
deteriorationist
impairment
pessimism
deformation
distortion
worsener
loserhood
pessimization
doggishness
drop behind
fall
go backwards
disimprove
take a turn for the worse
run
make matters worse
crash
require improvement
misalter
come a gutser
worsen
fail at life
blow
lose ground
kick someone when they are down
exacerbate
pejorate
be riding for a fall
go off the boil
suffer
deteriorate
bite the big one
backfire
lag behind
come to grief
fritz
decline
reap the whirlwind
go down in flames
go wrong
do more harm than good
snapper
have one foot on a banana peel
go south
stave
take on water
make heavy weather of
skunk
impair
circle the drain
turn
mess up
screw the pooch
act up
fight a losing battle
misfall
decay
lose out
downtrend
cack up
fall flat on one's face
fizzle out
blunder
rot in hell
suck a big one
tatter
go to smash
scantle
ameliorate
confound
misadapt
sap
starve
underwhelm
die on the vine
flaw
fall away
scant
drop the ball
bewill
go to pieces
misengender
verb
- To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To become.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- To be brought to the ground.
- To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To come down, to drop or descend.
noun
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- The action of a batsman being out.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- That which falls or cascades.
intj
verb
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
verb
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
- To hit or strike with force
- To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
- To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To give, as a favor.
- To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
- To terminate extraordinarily.
- To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
- To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
noun
- A type of rough linen.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A comedown from a drug.
adj
verb
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
adj
noun
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
verb
- To become weaker or worse.
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
verb
noun
- The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- A stumble, a trip.
- A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- The snapping turtle.
- Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- A string bean.
- A punchline.
- A (human) baby.
- One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- The vulva.
- The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
- Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
verb
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
- To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
noun
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
verb
- To go bad, to spoil.
- To win by 30 or more points.
- To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
noun
- A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.
- Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
- A win by 30 or more points. (A double skunk is 60 or more, a triple skunk 90 or more.)
- A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
- Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.
- A despicable person.
- Anything very bad; a stinker.
verb
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
noun
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
verb
- To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- To damage; injure.
- To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
noun
- a change for the worse
- a shape resulting from distortion
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
verb
- To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- To rot, to go bad.
- To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
noun
verb
- To make something worse.
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- To stun or amaze.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- To perplex or puzzle.
noun
verb
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- To gradually weaken.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
noun
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- Any juice.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
verb
- To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
- To be very hungry.
- To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
adv
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
noun
adj
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
verb
- To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
- To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
noun
- A storm of short duration.
- An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
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